XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics   
   From: major_debacle@REMOVEyahoo.com   
      
   Gogarty wrote:   
   > In article , bw@barrk.net   
   > says...   
   >> CNN reports that US aircraft bombed a 300 acre field   
   >> of poppies in southern Afghanistan today.   
   >>   
   >> Of course the farmer and his family and anyone who   
   >> scraped a meager living off the crop will all join   
   >> the Taliban now and be killing YOUR sons and   
   >> daughters with bombs and bullets instead of just   
   >> getting them peacefully buzzed at home.   
   >>   
   >> But why let reason stand in the way of the great,   
   >> glorious and holy 'Drug War' eh ? Those for-profit   
   >> prisons and rehab joints and prosecutors and cops   
   >> and cop-junk makers and drug-test makers and their   
   >> well-greased politicians NEED that drug-war money   
   >> after all ...... and the military contractors NEED   
   >> that Taliban-fighting money too ! Wouldn't want to   
   >> run out of Taliban and domestic thought-criminals   
   >> now would we ?   
   >>   
   > Oh, you're so cynical.   
      
   And it's entirely justified.   
      
   None of us should have any illusions about the nature of the worldwide   
   armament industry, whether we benefit from it directly, as in the form   
   of lucrative employment, or not. It is a self-perpetuating phenomenon,   
   the very existence of which depends on never-ending threats and   
   conflicts. And if threats and conflicts are ever in short supply, you   
   can count on the arms industry to fashion some out of whole cloth and   
   then bomb the hell out of it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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